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SOEP-Core – 2023: Biografie (PAPI, mit Verweis auf Variablen) - Version mit Variablen (de)

SOEP-Core – 2023: Biografie (techn., mit Verweis auf Variablen) - Version mit Variablen (de)

SOEP-Core – 2023: Biography (PAPI, with Reference to Variables) - Version mit Variablen (en)

SOEP-Core – 2023: Biography (techn., with Reference to Variables) - Version mit Variablen (en)

“Status” concerns and self-employment transitions

This paper investigates whether individuals’ relative (status or positional) concerns are associated with their transitions from paid employment or inactivity to self-employment. The conjecture is that stress and anxiety arising from socio-economic comparisons may be motivating factors for individuals to establish their own businesses. We examine this using the Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) dataset, ...

Overeducation, performance pay and wages: evidence from Germany

Overeducated workers are more productive and have higher wages in comparison to their adequately educated coworkers in the same jobs. However, they have lower wages than their similarly educated peers who are in correctly matched jobs. This study examines the hypotheses that overeducated workers sort into performance pay jobs as an adjustment mechanism and that performance pay enhances their wages. ...

Social Class and Personality: The Effects of Educational Mobility on Personality Trait Change

Transitioning into young adulthood often brings about significant changes in personality traits. However, the reasons behind these personality changes remain unclear. This study integrates insights from research on personality development and the psychology of social class to study how the construction of one’s social class identity in young adulthood might trigger changes in personality traits (i.e., ...

Einstellungen von Sozialarbeiterinnen und Sozialarbeitern zu staatlicher Umverteilung und Armutsbekämpfung. Ein Berufsgruppenvergleich basierend auf ALLBUS, ESS und SOEP

Von Sozialarbeiterinnen und Sozialarbeitern wird eine „armutsbewusste Haltung“ gefordert und ein mögliches „sozialpolitisches Mandat“ wird diskutiert. Unerforscht bleibt bislang, inwiefern Sozialarbeiterinnen und Sozialarbeiter eine staatliche Umverteilung und eine staatliche Armutsbekämpfung befürworten. Als bislang erste Studie vergleicht dieser Beitrag die Einstellungen der Berufsgruppe mit anderen ...

Dealing with Censored Earnings in Register Data

Earnings are often top-coded (right-censored) in administrative registers. The censoring threshold in the case of Germany is the limit value for social security contributions, leading to a substantial fraction of censoring: For example, about 12 % of male workers in West Germany are affected, rising to above 30 % for highly educated prime-aged workers. This missing right tail of the earnings distribution ...

Prioritize to decarbonize: Thermal retrofits, carbon prices, and energy inequality

The energy crisis following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine exposed the heightened vulnerability of low-income households to rising heating costs, particularly those in energy inefficient buildings. Using data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), this study examines the distributional impact of heating costs across income deciles and evaluates the effectiveness of policy interventions. We find ...